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Location:

Preston,Id,USA

Member Since:

Mar 09, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

2009 TOU Half Marathon 1:25:06

2010 St George Painter's Half Marathon 1:25:24

2011 Jan. St George [Painter's] Half Marathon different course 1:25:28

2011 Apr. Boston Marathon 3:03:24

2011 May Ogden 5K 18:18

2011 July 4th 15K Freedom Run 58:53

2011 July Deseret News 10K 37:12

2011 Oct St George Marathon 2:58:18

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 18 min. 5k

1:24 Half

Sub 3 at St George in Oct.

Get injury free and stay that way

Set new PRs at all distances now that I'm 50

Long-Term Running Goals:

17:30 5K

2:50 marathon

Personal:

I was born in 1960

I started running in 2006

I am married with a 16 year old son [that lives with my wife and I] and a 30 year old step son and 25 year old step daughter

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Tue, Jan 27, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.00	5.00

Last night the IT band on the same side that's been giving me trouble in the knee area got quite sore up in my hip area [which is not the same hip nor pain I had a few weeks ago]. I woke up and couldn't even sleep with it and had to take some ibuprofin. It's been a little sore there since late last week but just got a lot worse. I've barely done any running in the past week so I don't know why this is getting worse. I've been doing a whole lot more ITB stretches this past week and also doing some self massage on it. I wonder if this has brought some of it on. None of the stretches are new to me, but I've been doing them maybe 4 times a day compared to once a week and sometimes missing a week or two in between that I was doing them before. I did the eliptical yesterday also [which I haven't done in a while] but I wouldn't think that would bring it on. I did a 15 mile bike ride today and it felt good until near the end when it got a little sore. I'm going to have to really be cautious the next few days and take it very easy on my stretching and see what happens.

Comments

From Robert on Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 18:21:13

Hang in there Dave. If you have one nearby, I've seen foam rollers at Target in their exercise section. Your hip might be barking because of the stretching. Mine did that when I got too aggressive with the old side lean stretch. You can also consider doing some hip hikers for some PT at this point.

From JeffC on Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:08:16

On more than one occasion I have further irritated an injury by stretching and massaging. I think I get too aggresive with my massaging and really end up causing more problems. Hope it starts feeling better over the next couple of days.

From Dave S on Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 17:19:52

Robert, thanks for the ideas. I was doing a lot of side lean stretches as well as some others so that is likley the cause. I'll be traveling through a town that has a Target next week and I'll check it out. For now I made one from some things I had around. I wrapped a piece of 1 inch thick foam rubber around a piece of 6 inch PVC pipe.

Jeff, I've done the same thing a few times before too. Some day I might learn. In the past I had gotten away with aggressive ITB stretches. Guess I'd better be careful now.

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